Lesson Plan of Punctuation
Subject English
Grade IV
Students` Learning Outcomes
- Recognize and apply capitalization to the initial letter of the first word of a sentence, and to the initial letter of the names of people, pets and places.
- Recognize that a sentence ends with some form of punctuation, i.e. full-stop and question mark or an exclamation mark.
Information for Teachers
- Simple sentences are called statements. All statements sentences begin with a capital letter.
- All names of people, places, and pets begin with a capital letter.
- A full-stop (.) is used to end a statement. A full-stop is also called period. E.g.
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- I see the house.
- The sun is shining.
- It is raining.
- The ground is wet.
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- A question mark (?) is used at the end of a question. E.g.
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- When are we going?
- Who are you?
- Do you like drinking tea?
- Do you like watching movies?
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- An exclamation mark (!) is used to show excitement or emotions. E.g.
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- We won the match!
- How beautiful this city is!
- Don`t talk, get out!
- I`m so mad at her!
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Material / Resources
Writing board, chalk/marker, duster, coloured chalk, sentences strips, flashcards (paste them on board), worksheets, textbook
Introduction
- Write your name on the board in small letters. E.g. sofia Malik.
- Make students read the name.
- Now write your name again with the first letter of each as capital. I.e. Sofia Malik.
- Tell the students that all names start with capital letters (show them the roll call register or a familiar story book and point to the names of the characters).
- Recap the concept of capital and small letters with students. (They have learnt this earlier)
- All students write their complete names in their notebooks with first letter of each name as capital. E.g.
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- Muhammad Ali Chaudhry
- Muhammad Amin Ghori
- Abdul Mateen
- Sarfraz Ahmad
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- Ask the students to circle all capital letters in green.
Development
Activity 1
- Tell the students the tip to capitalize all names and the first letter of the sentence.
- Also tell the students that all types of names are capitalized.
- Write a few names of places, pets and people on the board in small letters. E.g.
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- shahid
- lahore
- mano bile
- muhammad ali Jinnah
- pakistan
- ravi
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- Call a few students one by one to the board to make corrections.
Activity 2
- Tell the students that all sentences start with a capital letter.
- All sentences end with a full-stop.
- Write the following sentences on the pieces of paper to make sentence strips.
- Paste them on the board.
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- this is my book
- i am happy
- she is my friend
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- Use green coloured marker to capitalize the first letter of the sentence.
- Use red coloured marker to add a full-stop. (Tell the students that when traffic light turns red, we stop.)
- Call two students to the board and ask them to make corrections.
- Ask all students to copy the sentences and make corrections in the end.
- Ask them to open their textbooks and note/circle full-stops and capital letters.
Activity 3
- Tell the students that some sentences ask for information. They start with a capital letter and end with a question mark.
- Tell them that the WH question words (What, where, when, who, why, how) are given in the beginning of the sentences.
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- Where is my bag?
- What is your name?
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- Write the following sentences on the pieces of paper and paste them on the board.
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- is this my book
- how are you
- where is sadia
- who is coming
- why is he crying
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- Use green coloured marker to capitalize the first letter of the sentence.
- Use red coloured marker to add a full-stop.
- Use blue coloured marker to add a question mark.
- Call three students to the board and ask them to make corrections.
- All students copy the sentences and make corrections.
Activity 4
- Check the student`s work of activity 3 and say out loud: ‘Well done Ali! Or you did not finish the work’!
- Paste the flashcard of an exclamation mark on the board.
- Point to the exclamation mark.
- Tell them that this mark shows feelings.
- Ask the students:
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- What did I feel when I said: Well done Ali! (Possible answer may be as; happiness, joy, excitement),
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or
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- What did me feel when I said: you did no finish the work! (Possible answer may be as; sad, angry)
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- Repeat a few more emotional statements and ask the same question.
- (Sample sentences are attached)
- Write the sentences on the board with an exclamation mark.
- Tell students that this exclamation mark shows emotions and feelings. It is also called an excitement mark.
- Ask the students to read the same sentences written on board with emotion and see the exclamation mark given at the end.
- Sample Sentences: (ask students to identify emotion and put exclamation marks:
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- We won the match (excitement, joy)
- Oh no. we lost the match (disappointment, sadness)
- Hurray it is raining (joy, excitement)
- I lost my book (sadness)
- Don`t touch it (anger, warning)
- Get out (anger)
- I am sorry (apology)
- Excellent work (joy, appreciation)
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Activity 5
- Do the following worksheet with students on the board.
- All students copy the work in their notebooks.
Activity 6
- Write sentences on paper strips, without punctuation marks. (select sentences from the textbook)
- Divide class into two teams.
- Make 2 sets of flashcards of punctuation marks.
- Place one set of punctuation marks in front of each team, (on the floor, board, desks or wherever the team can get to it fast).
- One student from each team will hold and display the sentence strip to the other team.
- Have the student display one sentence strip at a time. The teacher can say, “Ready, Set, Go!”
- One student from each team has to quickly pick the correct punctuation mark and race to the end of the sentence displaying their end mark.
- Then they have to explain why they chose the punctuation mark and also read the sentence.
Sum up / Conclusion
- Recap the concept with short questions about punctuation rules.
Assessment
- Use the follow-up activity to assess student`s progress.
- Worksheet given at the end can be used as class test (you can do it as exercises on board or chart paper).
Follow up
- Each morning when the students arrive in class, have one or two sentences written on the board with no punctuation and /or mistakes.
- Let them correct the mistakes.